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dustedmagazine · 5 years

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Dust Volume 5, Number 5

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Home fi, gnawa-pop fusion, mariachi cowpunk, classically minded jazz, shout-y punk-pop and finger picked acoustic blues—as appropriate for spring, Dust lets a thousand flowers bloom.This edition of short, mostly positive reviews, draws contributions from Isaac Olson, Bill Meyer, Jennifer Kelly and Justin Cober-Lake. We hope you find something to blast from open windows on the first warm, sunny opportunity.

Ahmed Ag Kaedy — Akaline Kidal (Sahel Sounds)

Akaline Kidal by Ahmed Ag Kaedy

This acoustic, solo release by Malian guitarist in exile Ahmed Ag Kaedy is a beaut. Like a lot of so-called desert blues, this is only chill out music until you read the lyrics, for example, “The Tuareg people must know/you can consider France an enemy/no better than Algeria who stands in our path.” Even if militant nationalism, no matter who’s calling for it, isn’t your thing, Ahmed Ag Kaedy’s weathered, throaty voice and plangent, monophonic guitar flights which are as evocative, bitter, and seemingly ephemeral as campfire smoke, make Akaline Kidal well worth hearing. And like campfire smoke, they’ll stick with you well into the next day.

Isaac Olson

Astralingua — Safe Passage (Midnight Lamp)

Safe Passage by Astralingua

Quietly, precisely odd, this elaborately instrumented, baroquely arranged folk experiment shrouds whispery threads of poetry in eerie landscapes of stringed instruments, pennywhistles and gently massed harmony. The music, mostly the work of composer Joseph Andrew Thompson but aided by singer Anne Rose Thompson, runs much in line with goth folk outfits like Gravenhurst and Boduf Songs, in the way that dread seeps up from the floorboards and beauty has a spectral, semi-transparent air; you could make a case for an Elliott Smith singing in front of Clogs comparison in a couple of the songs. Yet the music faces forward, not back into misty folklorics. “Space Blues” takes a turn towards proggy Pink Floyd-ish visions of interstellar travel on “Space Blues” and while “Poison Tree” heads off into to tremulous orchestral confessionalism, a la Sufjan Stevens. It is all very pretty and a little disturbing.

Jennifer Kelly

Kaja Draksler / Petter Eldh / Christian Lillinger—Punkt.Vrt.Plastik (Intakt)

Punkt.Vrt.Plastik by Kaja Draksler, Petter Eldh, Christian Lillinger

This pan-Euopean combo rethinks one of the most cobweb-festooned configurations in jazz. To overcome the piano trio’s over-familiarity, they combine idiosyncratic personal techniques with a disciplined collective approach. Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and German drummer Christian Lillinger have forged their concord in a couple other groups; the former is assertively melodic and big-toned, the latter quick and ubiquitous. With so much happening in the engine room, they need a partner who values balance, and they have found one in Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler. Her playing is fleet and articulate, and her ideas feel complete in themselves, but they also leave ample space between the root notes for her partners to exercise their formidable muscles without banging into any harmonic walls.

Bill Meyer

Maxine Funke — Home Fi (Feeding Tube)

home fi by maxine funke

Keep your lo fi, hi fi, and wifi; Home Fi is where it’s at. Really, how come no one characterized their music thusly before? Maxine Funke’s songs flesh out the conceit with lyrical details that relate not just home life, but a state of at-homeness on the grounds around the house. “February” doles out images of late summer foliage (Funke lives in New Zealand) and foraged taste treats; “Waving the Tea Rose” finds spiritual riches in the neighbors’ trash. Funke’s accompanies her slightly sleepy croon with spare finger-picking, captured up close enough that you can hear a chair creak while a strategically dissonant organ or fiddle pipes up in the background. This record, which was originally sold as a tape on an Australian tour, lasts just 22 minutes, but it feels as complete as an afternoon nap.

Bill Meyer

Houssam Gania — Mosawi Swiri (Hive Mind Records)

Mosawi Swiri by Houssam Gania

Houssam Gania, son of guimbri master Maalem Mahmoud Gania, opens Mosawi Swiri, his debut, with an act of cheerful patricidal aggression. Rather than launching into the traditional Gnawa music — solid and sparse as a mudbrick house, deep and dark as a well and groovy as ripples in a dune — that his father mastered, Gania’s traditional guimbri and qraqabs are joined on the first track, “Moulay Lhacham,” by a guitar/drums/keys band that sounds not unlike Brent Mydland-era Dead. It’s sunshiny, a little corny and perfectly delightful. Ok, ok, so Gania Sr. was no purist himself, having collaborated with, among others, Pharoah Sanders and Peter Brotzmann, but Gania Jr’s opening gambit is pure pop delight. Luckily for armchair ethnographers everywhere, the rest of Mosawi Swiri sticks to traditional Gnawa music, which in Gania’s capable hands, really is as hypnotic and potentially curative as both locals and marshmallow-eared world music fans claim. That first track is a hoot though, and while I’m not sure Gania could sustain a whole album of gnawa-pop fusion, I’d love to see him try.

Isaac Olson

A.F. Jones — Bourdon du Kinzie (Unfathomless)

Bourdon du Kinzie by A.F. Jones

Sound ecologist, submarine acoustician, mastering engineer, musician; if it manifests within the ears, A.F. Jones is tuned into it. This CD echoes an order that David Thomas, a man who has never been shy about telling other people what to do, once barked. “Insist on more than the truth.” This album began with a field recording expedition to a disused bunker in Port Washington, WA. The space is simultaneously absorbent and reverberant, luring external sounds into its cavernous interior and transforming them with its long decay times. You could probably get some cool sounds by simply stamping your foot or dropping the change in your pockets and hearing what the space does to it. But sound collection is just the first step for Jones. He’s used audio analysis software to isolate and enhance the space’s dominant tones, and then further seasoned the reduction with dancing sine tones. The result is a sort of sonic centrifuge in which essences are extracted so that some sounds become more ephemeral and others more vivid. Give it a spin.

Bill Meyer

Patio—Essentials (Fire Talk)

Essentials by Patio

All clanks and spikes and spatter, this Brooklyn-based trio constructs a jag-edged punk with lots of space. It jangles like a bag of rusty nails. The vocals—sung sometimes by bassist Loren DiBlasi and other times by Lindsey-Paige McCloy, the guitarist (but not by Alice Suh, the drummer) —are a soothing counterpoint, unless you listen to the words, which are sharp despite the cool, distanced delivery. The band mixes late-1980s post-punk jitter with intriguing intervals of chanted poetry and pop self-revelation. “Open,” the longest cut, threads an antic, literate narrative atop a bassline so crackling with electricity that you could get a shock. “Boy Scout,” the single, bounds ahead then collapses in a heap, surges and stops in sudden uncertainty. The music exactly mirrors the confusing, conflicting emotions sketched in lyrics like, “Never have the chance to choose, naturally I always lose, I went shopping the other day, this week I can afford to feel better.” Patio makes inward-facing music that jerks and spasms in an approximation of hedonism, but maintains its quiet, difficult core.

Jennifer Kelly

PUP — Morbid Stuff (Little Dipper/Rise/BMG)

Morbid Stuff by PUP

It’s been a minute since shout-along punk rattled cages like this second outing from Toronto’s PUP. Here in 11 teeth-rattling blasts, the band radiates bratty intelligence and dashed hopes, amid slamming guitars and kit battering drums. The tension between nerdy, needy erudition and beer bro riffs is palpable. When singer Stefan Babcock confesses, “Just like the kids/I've been navigating my way through the mind-numbing reality of a godless existence/Which, at this point in my hollow and vapid life, has erased what little ambition I've got left,” at the beginning of the single “Kids” you kind of expect the guy to get beat up by his own song. Obvious references include the Hold Steady, Green Day, Japandroids, that is, pretty much any punk that smart kids can memorize and dumb kids can punch the air to without really understanding. The trick is to stomp with triumphant, hobnail-studded aggression all over the relentlessly depressing lyrical content. Pretty soon, we are all singing along that, “Just because you’re sad, doesn’t make you special.”

Jennifer Kelly

Joshua Redman Quartet — Come What May (Nonesuch)

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Saxophonist Joshua Redman has been one of the defining voices of mainstream jazz for a quarter century, his clear tone and lyrical sensibilities a steady source of pleasure in various configurations. For Come What May, Redman reassembles his quartet from the early 2000s (pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson) for seven original compositions. The group stays locked in across a variety of sounds, with Goldberg particularly getting some time to shine. Bookending the album with meditative numbers “Circle of Life” and “Vast” makes for a nice closed structure to the disc, letting the livelier numbers pulse and swing. On “DGAF” the musicians' comfort with each other allows Hutchinson to guide a jerky momentum, one that works best when he reclaims it near the end of the song.

The ensemble doesn't push any obvious boundaries here, despite a few demanding interactions. Redman and his group are locked into standard sounds, with the challenge simply being how well they can do it. Not surprisingly, they're quite good at it, and the fact that Redman's conversations sound so easy shouldn't distract from the high level of play here. The quartet sticks to its tradition with clear sound, strong melodies and smart interplay, playing to its strengths for another expressive release.

Justin Cober-Lake

Vandoliers—Forever (Bloodshot)

Forever by Vandoliers

Vandoliers, out of Dallas, make punk rock with country fiddles, hoarse-voiced stomp-alongs with Mexicali flourishes of trumpet. “Sixteen Years,” which commemorates how long these urban cowboys have been on the job, sports bruise-y r ‘n r defiance, with its chugging beat, its cigarette-and-whiskey-vocals, but leavens the mix with brash folkloric bursts of brass. A rougher “Troublemaker” amps up the one-two shuffle and slides the cow-punk meter over towards the punk side, while contemplative “Cigarettes in the Rain,” smoulders and smokes much like its subject matter, but with a noticeable twang. Forever reminds you that the Rolling Stones were, on occasion, a country band, and the Replacements once made songs like “Waitress in the Sky.” The line is permeable, the fence has a nice place to sit on, and the Vandoliers are neither punk nor country but both.

Jennifer Kelly

Eli Winter — Time to Come (Blue Hole Recordings)

The Time To Come by Eli Winter

With The Time to Come, college student Eli Winter makes his entry into the solo guitar scene. Winter cites Jack Rose as a prominent influence, but he doesn't have the thickness or the pulse of Rose's sound. His sensibility, especially when playing acoustic, lies closer to Glenn Jones in his creation of atmosphere, brightness and storytelling. “Sunrise Over the Flood” starts with a simple, pretty pattern before turning dark, an evocative moment of lightness used to reveal something heavy. On the poppier side, “Oranges and Holly” builds around a riff close to the intro from “Here Comes the Sun,” but it never quite distinguishes itself. The title track unfurls over 15 minutes, Winter's structured thought allowing for linear but engaging progression. Winter's debut makes the case that we should be paying attention to him; he certainly has things to say and has the right vehicle for his expression. At the same time, it feels like a debut. Winter's restraint keeps everything in its right place, but it would be nice to see him challenge himself technically. Taking a few more risks would help him find his own niche the field, a spot he's likely to earn with a little more seasoning, given his smart songcraft and thoughtful aesthetics.

Justin Cober-Lake

Michael Zerang—THE SHUDDERING CHERUB (Pink Palace Records)

THE SHUDDERING CHERUB - for solo piano with vibrating elements by Michael Zerang

If you’re wondering how Chicago’s improvised music company made the march from the AACM’s rejection of commercial and racial marginalization in the 1960s to the current polymorphous scene, train your antennae on Michael Zerang. He’s one of the people who did the hard work of not just playing but organizing during the long dry 1980s. His polyvalence extends to his musicality; he’s played unamplified and electro-acoustic improvisation, ecstatic drone, indie rock, free jazz and pan-global percussion. It might seem a bit perverse that his first solo recording is on piano, but listen and your befuddlement will pass. Zerang spends precious little time on the keys. Instead he plunges into the instrument’s interior, liberally preparing its strings and then plucking, scraping and vibrating with sure hands and some trusty vibrators. The music morphs like a chameleon’s coloration, shifting from coarse texture to crystalline drizzle.

Bill Meyer

#dusted magazine #dust #Ahmed Ag Kaedy #isaac olson #astralingua #jennifer kelly #kaja draksler #petter eldh #christian lillinger #bill meyer #maxine funke #houssam gania #patio #pup #joshua redmond #justin cober-lake #vandoliers #eli winter #michael zerang

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bordercommunity · 2 years

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#ThrowbackThursday to our threeway collaboration between Floating Points / Eglo Records, James Holden / Border Community and the late great Maallem Mahmoud Guinia, master practitioner of Morocco's Gnawa tradition.

Eglo's 2015 vinyl artefact documenting the Maalem's brief encounter with British electronic music (which led to Floating Point's upbeat Mimoun Marhaba and Holden's trippy Bania) flew out of the door not long after it landed, but we continue to make the digital files available for future generations - including a pair of bonus Holden x Guinia collabs which didn't fit on the original vinyl release.

All royalties go to the Guinia family in Essaouira via the Maalem's sons Hamza and Maalem Houssam Gania, who continue to carry on the Gnawa tradition in their father's footsteps.

#throwbackthursday #floatingpoints #eglo #jamesholden #bordercommunity #maalemmahmoudguinia #gnawa #mimounmarhaba #bania #maalemhoussamgania

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zef-zef · 2 years

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Maalem Mahmoud Gania - Lalla Aicha from: Maalem Mahmoud Gania - Aicha (Hive Mind, 2020)

Aicha was previously released on cassette in Morocco only in the late 1990's.

#1990s #africa #morocco #maalem mahmoud gania #folk #world #gnawa #trance #essaouira #hive mind #2020 #reissue

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fearnoarts · 3 years

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taumada · 4 years

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(via https://maalemmahmoudgania.bandcamp.com/album/aicha)

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snackpointcharlie · 4 years

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In a world where the letter Q invokes fear and dread, Snackpoint Charlie is the antidote for the thunderstorms in your brain. Fairly sane music from all over a world gone mad, now in the Podcast-o-Tron. New Sun Ra! Maalem Mahmoud Gania! Hama! Sidi Touré! Feel the love in the heart of the world at https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/ypw6sy

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 049 - 2020.09.16 PLAYLIST

1) Sun Ra Arkestra - “Sea of Darkness / Darkness” from SWIRLING https://sunrastrut.bandcamp.com/album/swirling

2) Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness - “The Funeral of a Woman Whose Soul is Trapped in the Sun” from THE TOTEMIST https://akuphone.bandcamp.com/album/the-totemist

3) Warren Burt - excerpts from MUSIC FOR TUNING FORKS (underbed throughout show) http://www.warrenburt.com/

4) Sabreen - “Eash Ya Kdeesh” from DEATH OF THE PROPHET https://akuphone.bandcamp.com/album/death-of-the-prophet

5) Samba Negra -“Eberebijara” from LA LOCURA DE MACHUCA 1975-1980 https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/la-locura-de-machuca-1975-1980

6) Bu Nasser Touffar - “Hexaphobia” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIMREtsNRdo https://soundcloud.com/bunassertouffar/bu-nasser-touffar-hexaphobia-prod-by-hello-psychaleppo

7) Pro Arte - “Ko vjecnu tugu nosi taj ima pravo da pjeva” ("He who bears eternal sorrow has the right to sing") from JUGOTON FUNK VOL.1 - A DECADE OF NON-ALIGNED BEATS, SOUL, DISCO AND JAZZ 1969-1979 https://everland-music.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-jugoton-funk-vol-1-2020

8) Fatimah Razak - “Dahaga” from DARI SUARA LIFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4HQqj7d3FA

9) Phelimuncasi - “Private Party” from PHELIMUNCASI: 2013 - 2019 https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/phelimuncasi-2013-2019

10) The Science Fiction Corporation - “Just Walking on the Moon” from SCIENCE FICTION DANCE PARTY https://finderskeepersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/science-fiction-dance-party

11) Warin Shinaraj - “Noo Yaak Dang” from PARADISE BANGKOK THE ALBUM : VOL. 2 http://paradisebangkok.bandcamp.com https://zudrangmarecords.bandcamp.com/album/paradise-bangkok-the-album-vol-2

12) Harry Klinn - “Radio Melpo” https://www.discogs.com/Various-20-%CE%93%CE%BB%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%B9%CE%AD%CF%82-%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%84%CF%85%CF%87%CE%AF%CE%B5%CF%82/release/5024799

13) Evritiki Zygia - “Karsilamas” from ORMENION https://terangabeat.bandcamp.com/album/ormenion

14) Mark Mothersbaugh - “Girl You Raga” https://www.instagram.com/p/CERtGKGhtVY/

15) Ekuka Moriss Sirikiti - “Wilo Koti Me Kwalo Orango” from EKUKA https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/ekuka

16) Maalem Mahmoud Gania - “Bangara Bangara” from AICHA https://maalemmahmoudgania.bandcamp.com/album/aicha

17) Hama - “Imoujar Nakalin” from Music from Saharan WhatsApp 08 http://hamasynth.bandcamp.com

18) Sidi Touré - “Tchaw Yan” (roughly “Knowledge”) from AFRIK TOUN MÉ (AFRICA MUST UNITE) https://siditoure.bandcamp.com/album/afrik-toun-m

19) Super Elcados - “How Much I Love You” from TOGETHERNESS IS ALWAYS A GOOD VENTURE - TAMBOURINE PARTY VOL. 2 https://www.discogs.com/Super-Elcados-Togetherness-Is-Always-A-Good-Venture-Tambourine-Party-Vol-2/master/1386096

20) Alech - “Soul Brother” from HABIBI FUNK 001: DALTON https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-001-alech

21) Tuyết Mai & Hà Thanh & Hồng Phúc & Thanh Phong - “Trầu Cau” from TRAU CAU / CHO NHAU NIEM THUONG / LA THA TAM TINH https://www.discogs.com/Xuân-Thu-Phương-Thanh-Xuân-Thu/release/12182237

22) Kim Jung Mi - “The Sun” from BEAUTIFUL RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS: THE PSYCHEDELIC ROCK SOUND OF SOUTH KOREA'S SHIN JOONG HYUN 1958-1974 https://www.discogs.com/Shin-Joong-Hyun-Beautiful-Rivers-And-Mountains-The-Psychedelic-Rock-Sound-Of-South-Koreas-Shin-Joong/release/3143270

#snackpointcharliewgxc #snackpointcharlieradio #radioforopenears #hellsdonuthouse #communityradio #freeformradio #outernational #hudsonvalley #globalmusic #worldmusic #wgxcradio #hudsonny #wgxc

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gnirrednow · 6 years

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100 discos

Negro Leo - Action Lekking

Micah Gaugh - Stars Are a Harem

Aaron Dilloway - The Gag File

Arto Lindsay - Cuidado Madame

Mateus Aleluia - Fogueira Doce

Marcello Callado - Musical Porém

Nyege Nyege - Sounds of Sisso

Hermeto Pascoal - No mundo Dos Sons

Sun Kil Moon - Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood

Mad Professor & Jah9 - Mad Professor Meets Jah9 In The Midst Of The Storm

Negro Leo - Coisado

Hermeto Pascoal - Viajando Com O Som

Irreversible Entanglements - Irreversible Entanglements

Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

Hermeto Pascoal - Natureza Universal

Jlin - Black Origami

M. Sayyid - Error Tape 1

Shabazz Palace - Qazarz: Born On A Gangster Star

Maalem Mahmoud Gania - Colours Of The Night

Aphex Twin - Aphex Mt. Fuji

EUEUEU - eueueu

Still - I

Ekoplekz - Cassettera

Shackleton & Anika - Behind the Glass

Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often

Jackie Shane - Any Other Way

Saicobab - Sab Se Purani Bab

Roscoe Mitchell - Bells For The South Side

Bill Orcutt - Bill Orcutt

Lucas - Panasonic

Fumitake Tamura & Dakim - Mudai Version

Chino Amobi - Paradiso

Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II - Emerging Worlds

Awa Poulo - Poulo Warali

Tantão e os Fita - Espectro

LOE LOF LON & Wayne Rex - LOE LOF LON Meets Wayne Rex

N.E.R.D - NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES

Nnamdi Ogbonnaya - DROOL

Rabit - Les Fleurs du Mal

Death Of Lovers - The Acrobat

Kondactor - Afrikanochetos

Boubacar Traoré - Dounia Tabolo

New Vernusians - New Vernusians

Ryuichi Sakamoto - async

The Prostitutes - Dance Tracksz

Dean Hurley - Anthology Resource Vol.1: △△

F ingers - Awkwardly Blissing Out

Domenico Lancellotti - Serra Dos Orgãos

Chelpa Ferro e Duplexx - Chelplexx

Björk - Utopia

Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors

Porter Ricks - Arguila Electrica

Marco Scarassatti - Casa Acústica fragments from an improvisation diary

KAYAKA - Silvestre

Demdike Stare - Cosmogony

Ki - Halakini Vikisani

Equiknoxx - Cólon Man

Will Stratton - Rosewood Almanac

Laurel Halo - Dust

The Magnetic Fields - 50 Songs Memoir

Onça Combo - Onça Combo

Radio Diaspora - Radio Diaspora 2

Lew Barnez - LITerature

Kiko Dinucci - Cortes Curtos

Omar Souleyman - To Syria, With Love

Dub Syndicate - Displaced Masters

Prurient - Rainbow Mirror

Helm - Rawabet

Drew McDowall - Unnatural Channel

Diamanda Galás - All the Way

Bemônio - Vão

36 - Reflex Shun

Omas S - High School Graffti

Grupo Bongar - Ogum Iê

Pan Daijing - Lack

V! - D.

COIL - Time Machines

Bartolo - (E)spécies

Rodrigo Campos, Juçara Marçal e Gui Amabis - Sambas do Absurdo

Actress - AZD

Linda Perhacs - I’m a Harmony

Ben Lukas Boysen e Sebastian Plano - Everything

Psilosamples - SP Trips [BWR027]

air jordans™ - air jordans™

4zero4 & Verjault - 4zero4 + Verjault

Richard Dawson - Peasunt

Clustered - Derendering

Combo Cordeiro - Combo Cordeiro

Prince Paul - THE REDUX * FREE PAY 0 FOR PROMOTION ONLY !

Metá Metá - Gira

4zero4 - Aliquid

Ralegh Long - Upwards Of Summer

Roscoe Mitchell - Discussions

vários - Yellow

Sweet Desastre - Muzákna

Fever Ray - Plunge

YPY - 2020

Yarahiro Green - Saturday at Home

Kutmah - Masha Beat Tape

Inventing Masks - 2nd

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